politics Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/politics/ Connecting Books and Readers One Review at a Time Mon, 10 Nov 2025 00:24:11 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/cropped-books-on-table-2-150x150.jpg politics Archives - The Gilmore Guide to Books https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/tag/politics/ 32 32 38398750 Ask Not by Maureen Callahan https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/11/ask-not-by-maureen-callahan/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/11/ask-not-by-maureen-callahan/#respond Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:54:48 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=19402 Reams of paper have been expended in dissecting the Kennedys in all their tragedy and fame. Now, author Maureen Callahan joins the fray with a knockout punch in Ask Not. The book’s subtitle is The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed, but in case Callahan’s being too subtle this is a scathing exposé about the […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2025/11/ask-not-by-maureen-callahan/feed/ 0 19402 Jackie: A Novel by Dawn Tripp https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/jackie-a-novel-by-dawn-tripp/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/jackie-a-novel-by-dawn-tripp/#respond Mon, 17 Jun 2024 07:41:15 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=18498 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis was one of the most talked about women of the 20th century. An ocean of words exists, including her own, allowing analysis and dissection of every aspect of her life to feed the insatiable appetite of those fascinated by this enigmatic woman. What could another book possibly offer? In the case of […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2024/06/jackie-a-novel-by-dawn-tripp/feed/ 0 18498 June Books I’m Ready to Read https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/06/june-books-im-ready-to-read/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/06/june-books-im-ready-to-read/#comments Wed, 02 Jun 2021 04:01:25 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=15735   Hello, June 2021! While some things feel as unsettling as they have for the past 4 years, others are getting easier. Those of us who are vaccinated are looking forward to a more open summer. But the country seems no less divided. Without meaning to, the books I want to read this June feel […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2021/06/june-books-im-ready-to-read/feed/ 10 15735 Homeland Elegies: A Novel https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/10/homeland-elegies-a-novel/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/10/homeland-elegies-a-novel/#comments Mon, 05 Oct 2020 04:06:07 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14897 These days, I’m attuned to fiction that takes my mind off reality. Not necessarily easy or soothing, but novels that grab me with their drama (Against the Loveless World) or distract me with their lovely prose (Monogamy). It’s with some surprise then that I’m reviewing Homeland Elegies, a complex novel I’m still not sure I […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/10/homeland-elegies-a-novel/feed/ 4 14897 Rodham: A Novel by Curtis Sittenfeld https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/05/rodham-a-novel-by-curtis-sittenfeld/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/05/rodham-a-novel-by-curtis-sittenfeld/#comments Wed, 20 May 2020 04:30:16 +0000 https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=14349 Seldom has there been a public figure more scrutinized, disparaged, and talked about than Hillary Rodham Clinton. You might think it’s the price to be paid for entering politics, but the level of personal attacks against her often seem largely based on the fact that she is a she. Add to this her marriage to […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2020/05/rodham-a-novel-by-curtis-sittenfeld/feed/ 8 14349 Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/dopesick-dealers-doctors-and-the-drug-company-that-addicted-america/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/dopesick-dealers-doctors-and-the-drug-company-that-addicted-america/#comments Wed, 11 Dec 2019 05:58:19 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=13494 Last week, I left behind heavy nonfiction with Adam Rippon’s memoir, Beautiful on the Outside, but today I’m back with a heavy dose of reality.  Dopesick is Beth Macy’s well-researched and documented rise of opioid addiction in America. Specifically, in the Appalachians—starting with the over-prescribing of high dose Oxycontin to coal miners in the late […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/12/dopesick-dealers-doctors-and-the-drug-company-that-addicted-america/feed/ 4 13494 Mothers’ Week: Mother Country https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/mothers-week-mother-country/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/mothers-week-mother-country/#respond Fri, 10 May 2019 07:45:26 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12666 Nadia’s life is not an easy one. She works not one, but two jobs—as a home attendant for an elderly man and as a nanny for a little girl. It’s necessary because she lives in Brooklyn while her daughter Larissa is still back in Ukraine. They’ve been separated for six years. Lonely years for Nadia […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/05/mothers-week-mother-country/feed/ 0 12666 Feminasty by Erin Gibson https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/feminasty-by-erin-gibson/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/feminasty-by-erin-gibson/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2019 07:24:18 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12609 It’s difficult to imagine a book that could make me laugh out loud and feel enraged at the same time, but Erin Gibson’s Feminasty did just that. It might help to know that the subtitle of the book is: The Complicated Woman’s Guide to Surviving the Patriarchy Without Drinking Herself to Death. Which is all […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/04/feminasty-by-erin-gibson/feed/ 4 12609 Becoming by Michelle Obama https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/becoming-by-michelle-obama/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/becoming-by-michelle-obama/#comments Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:50:12 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=12174 Leave it to Michelle Obama, an untested writer, to achieve something that has never happened in my reading history. I finished her memoir, Becoming, on January 15th and had no hesitation in ranking it 5 stars. This makes it not only the first time I’ve found a 5-star book in January, but the only time […]

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]]> https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2019/01/becoming-by-michelle-obama/feed/ 20 12174 From the Corner of the Oval: A Memoir https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/10/from-the-corner-of-the-oval-a-memoir/ https://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/2018/10/from-the-corner-of-the-oval-a-memoir/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2018 07:36:57 +0000 http://gilmoreguidetobooks.com/?p=11735   It may sound like fiction, but it’s fact: Beck Dorey-Stein answered a Craigslist ad and got a job working as a stenographer at the White House.  She was there for Barack Obama’s second term as president and in her memoir From the Corner of the Oval she shares her experiences of being the least […]

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